This College Grad Paid Off $50K in Student Loans in 18 Months. Here’s How

Kelsey Kronmiller had a problem many college grads know too well: How are you supposed to start paying back more than $100,000 in student loans when your first job out of school pays somewhere around $30,000?

Looking back on her early 20s, sharing an apartment with her then-boyfriend, she lamented, “Here I was in this committed relationship, and I realized all the things I ever wanted in life — a wedding, a house, a family — would never happen because of all the debt I was carrying.”

But Kronmiller wasn’t willing to give it all up.

She told John McDermott of Mel Magazine how she paid off $50,000 in student loan debt in just 18 months.

How This Designer Hustled to Pay Off Student Loan Debt

Kronmiller got deep into Dave Ramsey’s “Complete Guide to Money,” and publicly announced her commitment to pay down her debt on her blog in August 2014.

After settling into a new visual design job paying $40,000 the same summer, Kronmiller dramatically cut back on her spending and “started working, like, 500 jobs, because $40,000 a year just wasn’t going to cut it.”

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